By Natalie Willis The work of Alton Lowe, a realist painter born in Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, has an easy
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From the Collection: “The Deanery” (1979) by Alton Lowe
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Are We One With Nature? G. Paul Dorfmuller’s Nassau Corner
By Letitia M. Pratt, The D’Aguilar Art Foundation Recently, National Geographic published an article on their website acknowledging their racist coverage
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A Distant Bahamas: “Native Hut” (1915) by Hartwell Leon Woodcock
The American watercolour painter, Hartwell Leon Woodcock (1853-1929) is very much one of the typical representatives of British colonial-period painting where The Bahamas is concerned. His quaint depiction of a Bahamian home and landscape – complete with outdoor amenities associated with the time – fits in with the usual canon of charming images from the era. In “Native Hut” (1915) this portrayal of the Caribbean picturesque is precisely why the work was chosen as part of the 2017-18 Permanent Exhibition, “Revisiting An Eye For the Tropics,”, and why it is an important part of the National Collection.
Beauty in Bain Town: How does Over-the-Hill fit into the Bahamian picturesque?
Bain Town is a space of much notorietythese days, as a number of historically freed slave villages on the island have grown to be, but it wasn’t always so, and there is certainly a need to celebrate the history of these areas and the sense of community and pride amongst those who remember how different the place was merely a few decades ago. So many of our major artists in The Bahamas came from Over-the-Hill, perhaps most notably our beloved Maxwell Taylor, and embracing the greatness that comes out of these communities is important.